BehindBlueEyes
on the beach
One cannot capture all the beautiful moments on the beach. At best, we can only collect a few — and those moments are all the more precious for their rarity.
The white of the sand, the white of the waves. The blue of the sky, the blue of the water. And the red — that most glorious and delicious red. A second earlier, a second later, and the moment would be gone, passed by, unrecorded and unappreciated, and we’d be the poorer for it.
This is what photography does better than any other medium of expression. It can record and encapsulate a single organic moment, an unprecedented moment, one that cannot be repeated, a moment that transcends any artist’s interpretation. A moment when the entire world comes into complete harmony and holds its breath awaiting the perfect, almost magical gesture of a winsome young girl in a red shirt. Then she makes that gesture, releasing the world to resume its course. If we’re lucky — if we’re exceedingly lucky — somebody will be there with a camera.
And we have been lucky indeed.
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